Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Code used in the generation of simulated data, and analysis of the methods described in this paper.

IsSupplementTo: Pallast N, Wieters F, Fink GR, Aswendt M. Atlas-based imaging data analysis tool for quantitative mouse brain histology (AIDAhisto). J Neurosci Methods. 2019 Oct 1;326:108394. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108394. Epub 2019 Aug 12. PMID: 31415844. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108394)

Created through BioCom Laboratory at Purdue University, this interactive GUI can be used to visualize electrode placement and propagating cervical vagus nerve activity tied to gastric electrical stimulation.

This dataset includes skin conductance response (SCR) measurements for 10 healthy unmedicated participants (5 females and 5 males, age range: 18 - 33 years, mean age: 24.1 +/- 4.7) participating in a classical (Pavlovian) discriminant delay fear conditioning experiment with auditory CS. Also included are CS and US information, and ratings of CS after the experiment. Simple and complex CS were simple sine tones (4 s), and triads in root position or in first inversion, respectively. US was a train of electric square pulses delivered with a constant current stimulator (Digitimer DS7A, Digitimer, Welwyn Garden City, UK) on participants' dominant forearm through a pin-cathode/ring-anode configuration. After the fear conditioning task, participants were first asked to report their subjective estimate of how likely they were to receive a shock after a given CS in the future, on a visual analogue scale of 0-100. Then they were asked to rate pairs of CS sounds with respect to which of the two stimuli they liked less.

IsSupplementTo: Samhaber et al. Growing neuronal islands on multi-electrode arrays using an accurate positioning-μCP device

This dataset includes skin conductance response (SCR), electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration and eye tracker (including pupillometry) measurements for each of 29 healthy unmedicated participants (7 males and 22 females aged 23.5 +/- 3.6 years) in response to 10 discomforting electric stimulations to the forearm (RRM1) or 10 visual targets in a visual detection task (RRM2). The sample partly overlaps with data set PsPM-FR. Some participants did not take part in RRM1 or RRM2 such that there are 25 recordings for RRM1 and 26 recordings for RRM2. Electric shock stimuli are 0.2 ms wide square current pulse repeated at 500 Hz for 500 ms and individually adjusted amplitude just below the pain threshold. Visual stimuli are red crosses (+) embedded in a white digit stream; each stimulus is presented during 200 ms and separated by a 800 ms blank interval. ITI is selected randomly on each trial from 40 s, 45 s or 50 s. A baseline period with distractors but no targets concludes experiment RRM2. (This is in contrast to the methods description in Bach et al. (2016), according to which the baseline period was randomly either in the beginning or at the end of the experiment. This discrepancy was caused by an error in the code that controlled the experiment presentation.)

This dataset includes skin conductance response (SCR), electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration measurements for each of 23 healthy unmedicated participants (10 males and 13 females aged 22.6 +/- 3.9 years, age is misprinted in Paulus et al. 2016) in response to the 16 most arousing negative, the 16 most arousing positive (excluding explicit nude), and the 16 least arousing neutral IAPS pictures, presented for 1 s each. ITI was selected randomly on each trial from 43 s, 45 s or 47 s.

This dataset includes skin conductance response (SCR), electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration measurements for each of 20 healthy unmedicated participants (10 males and 10 females aged 25.3 +/- 5.1 years; male/female numbers were misprinted in Bach et al. 2016) in response to negatively and positively arousing IAPS pictures and neutral (65 dB) and aversive (85 dB) white noise sounds. All stimuli had 1 s duration. ITI was selected randomly on each trial from 40 s, 45 s or 50 s.

This dataset includes skin conductance response (SCR) measurements, CS and US information, keypress responses, keypress response times, key correctness and shock ratings for each of 20 healthy unmedicated participants (10 males and 10 females aged 22.2+/-4.0 years) participating in a classical (Pavlovian) discriminant delay fear conditioning task. CS is a visual stimulus appearing in the middle of the screen with variation in color. US is an electric shock as a 500 Hz current pulses train (individual pulse width: 0.5ms, varying current amplitudes (0.90+/-0.63 mA) train width:500 ms). SOA between the CS and US is 3.5 s. The ITI is randomly determined on each trial to be 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11 s. (This was correctly stated in Staib et al. (2015) but wrongly described in Bach et al. (2010).)